A year on from Tokyo, Mona McSharry is still basking in the glow

Paris 2024 is already in her sights but she knows nothing will ever compare to her first experience at the world’s biggest sporting circus

MAKING A SPLASH: Ireland’s Mona McSharry. Pic: INPHO/Andrea Staccioli

It’s already been 12 months. More. Imagine. Mona McSharry started getting the prompts on her phone a few weeks ago. A year since she arrived at the Olympic village in Tokyo. A year since her first race. A year since she became the first Irish swimmer in 25 years to make a final at the Games. Great memories.

“It just makes me smile," she says.